ML19347D587

Testimony Re Inadequate Planning for Livestock Evacuation & Care in Event of Nuclear Accident at Facility.Related Correspondence

ML19347D587
Person / Time
Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	03/20/1981
From:	Jennifer Fisher, Lytle P, Weber R AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
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NUDOCS 8103260746
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! , , e I)r. Robert heber,10 W. Simpson Street, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania f

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.:- I The caring for livestock described in Derartment of Agriculture

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Plan for Nuclear Fower; Generating Station Incidents is inadequate

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Dr.' Weber is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania t

School of Veterinary Medicine,1943. - He served as a veterinarian in the U. S. Army from 1943 until 1947. He has practiced in the area of the TMI generating stations since 1- '

1947.

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' 'i ' Paul M. Lytle, Jr., 915 E. Harrisburg Pike, Middletown, Pennsylvania

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With the help of my son and nephew, I milk twice each day

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.. '[4i! '-jconsider..themimy ' employees.:.rl have never missed a milking during 1

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.. During the TMI-2 accident, I stayed to take care of my cows, 1

I however I had lined up' three .trailor trucks to remove my cows if I judged that it was needed. I would not have abando:ted my cows

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' for two reasons -- my attachment to them for the service they have i

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been made in the event of a nuclear accident at TMI-1. .

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} Jeremiah E. Fisher, 183 Valley Road, Etters, R. D. 3, Pennsylvania

.. .. I am 48 years old and far= 154 acres on which I reside and rent an additional 40 acres. The crops I grow are corn, hay,

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dairy cows, heifers, calves and beef cattle.

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I farmed with b mp 'mothep until I began my own operation in 1956.

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! would be for my fa=ily. There are no local truckers, I am not sure

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', a choice of taking my cattle with ce. I am the sole caretaker of I my livestock, so that they would be abandoned.

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i fifty miles away, and I returned once a day to care for the livestock. -

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My livestock are fed outside, so they were not protected from radiation.

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I do not believe that we will be given the truth, and if there hisabadaccidentthat there will be time to take action to protect I cur animals. -

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ie I,ack of plans to evacuate livestock of farmers who live close d to.the TMI plant will =ake it impossible te save the livestock ~in f -

i.' case of a real^ disaster.. We may also lose our lives in trying to

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!'? ( Vance Fisher,109 Valley Road, R. D. 3, 2 -ters', Pennsylvania N.,. .: } My farm of 160 acres is located approximately three miles

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rom twenty-five beef cattle which are fattened ffom the crops of I keep between fifteen eM r

E.j.F tt. corn, wheat,. oats and hay raised on my farm. The balance of the hpi ~Tcrops are sold for pash.. I was raised on the adjacent farm and

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I;uring -the TMI-2 accident, I re=ained on the farm to attend

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'd I am concerned about the nuclear generating plant and about I the effect it can have on my animals' health. I am also concerned about the possibility of a cat 9 strophic accident,and that I- would 5

ict.get 'out in time in trying to care for my animals.

Since. three or four years af ter the opening of TMI, my neighbors

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i and I, who raise all of our own feed for our livestock,have experienced 1

health problems with our livestock that were never' kno'En.before in our or our families' lifetimes. Ilthough the problem has-been 5

i' identified,wearenotsatisfiedthat'theexplanationiscomplete. ,

_ f ., We feel that the plant is to blame, however we would -have a chard

, , -1 time proving lour case. ~1 feel ~that if my. cattle remained through ,

'D i an accident and..then had health problems, it would be the same.

. z-I am not satisfied that the planning done for livestock in

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